I was recently given this game as a gift and attempted to play multiplayer with my housemate. Figuring that there are controls for both mouse and keyboard in the game, I could use the keyboard and he could use the mouse. Easy, right?

Apparently not - we had no luck getting it working, and after doing a bit of reading it would appear that the only way to do local co-op is by using gamepads - something I don't have.

Is there another way I should be using to get co-op working? Or is it going to be a matter of me having to go out and buy extra hardware to make this happen? :-/

If I had controllers, I could have tested it. There's nothing I can see on the store page indicating that controllers are *required* for multiplayer, and it didn't seem unreasonable that one player would be able to use the mouse and another could use the keyboard.

Hi, I know that I might not be very helpful but I'll say this anyway.I also tried to play this game with my gf (I have one gamepad and a keyboard).We had a lot of trouble moving the characters and sometimes we would need to play with one controller only (because the other one wasn't responding/moving the character).It might be my fault but what I wanted to basically say is that if you wish to play with another person you should only one controller (one person plays and the other helps) or buy two gamepads.Since I had already beat the game, I was helping her out and she was playing.I hope you have as much fun as I did! :)